Sentence examples for become afflicted from inspiring English sources

He has become afflicted with piles, boils, and scours.

In the 20th century industrialized nations have become afflicted with an unprecedented pandemic of increased adiposity.

He turns out to be one of the first of millions of Britons who become afflicted.

Glass-blowers get it, computer workers can become afflicted and golfers begin to miss their putts".

Another reason that doctors are uncomfortable with hypochondriacs is that physicians routinely become afflicted with the disorder themselves.

I have seen how an entire country has slowly become afflicted with anxiety over the perceived threat.

And here Mr Sachar's volume becomes afflicted with a strange, fatal fuzziness.

Some of my relatives and neighbors became afflicted with rare and aggressive cancers or other progressive diseases, some of which claimed them way too young.

But around age 14, Mr. Abas said, he became afflicted with a "neurosis" that made him acutely sensitive to the tiniest sounds, especially chewing and footsteps.

Next to nothing is known, she adds, about a host of basic questions, like whether most women with the condition have been affected from the start of their sexual lives or became afflicted during the course of adulthood.

But he sold off most of them after he became afflicted in 2001 with an undiagnosed lung condition that left him wheelchair-bound and on oxygen.